BIRDS OF THE PACIFIC DISTRICT. 



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John Fielner. Immediate vicinity of Shasta Butte, 

 May 15, seen in numbers. The first time I saw this 

 bird was at Fort Tejon. (Sm. Report, 1864.) 



Camp Harney. Bendire. Late in October, 1875, 

 about eighty; a flock flying southward. 



Ridgway. On the 21st of April full grown young were 

 flying about in a cedar and pinon grove near Carson. 

 In this grove we found the abandoned nests, perhaps a 

 hundred or more. These nests were saddled upon the 

 horizontal branches, at a height of eight or ten feet 

 from the ground. Mr. Ridgway (Bull. Essex Inst.) says 

 they were abundant at Carson in winter. 



Hoffman. Rather common throughout that belt of 

 coniferous trees represented by the pmon(Pinus edulis), 

 extending more particularly and uninterruptedly from 

 Eureka southward to below Hot Spring Canon. Again, 

 at the occurrence of the same belt at Mount Nagle and 

 Mount Magruder, the species was detected, but not so 

 frequently. 



130. Dolichonyx oryzivorus albinucha Ridgw. WESTERN 



BOBOLINK. 



Ridgway. We found it common in August in the 

 wheat fields at the Overland Ranch in Ruby Valley, 

 Nevada, and we were informed at Salt Lake City that it 

 was a common species on the meadows of that section 

 of the country in May, and again in the latter part of 

 summer when the grain ripened. 



131. Molothrus ater (Bodd.) COWBIRD. 



British Columbia. John Fannin. Rare summer 

 resident. 



Ridgway. We found this species so rare in the coun- 

 try traversed that the list of specimens given below 

 comprises every individual seen during the whole time. 



